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  *爭* | 爭* | *爭
to strive for / to vie for / to argue or debate / deficient or lacking (dialect) / how or what (literary)
HSK 3
war; conflict / CL: 場|场,
HSK 4
to compete / competition
HSK 5
to work hard for / to do all one can / to contend strongly
HSK 7-9
First Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)
a struggle / fight / battle
HSK 6
(China's) War of Resistance against Japan (1937-1945)
Korean War (1950-1953)
to resist / to make a stand and fight (against)
HSK 7-9
Sino-French War (1883-1885) (concerning French seizure of Vietnam)
market competition
the three Punic Wars (264-146 BC) between Rome and Carthage
War of Liberation (1945-49), after which the Communists 共產黨武裝|共产党武装 under Mao Zedong 毛澤東|毛泽东 took over from the Nationalists 國民政府|国民政府 under Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石
unfair competition / illicit competition
Pacific War between Japan and the US, 1941-1945
American War of Independence (1775-1783)
to vie against one another / to fight each other / mutual aggression
war of aggression
people's war, military strategy advocated by Mao whereby a large number of ordinary citizens provide support in a campaign
Sino-Vietnamese War (1979)
power struggle
seize every minute and second (idiom); not a minute to lose / every moment counts
war on terrorism
Chu-Han Contention (206-202 BC), power struggle between Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦 of Han and Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽 of Chu
Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871)
succession struggle / dispute over inheritance
power struggle
fair competition
widely known / incontestable / undeniable / to not strive for / to not contend for
the Korean War (started June 25 1950)
The Wars of the Roses (1455-1485)
civil war / internal struggle
second Manchu invasion of Korea (1636)
internal power struggle
the Yom Kippur war of October 1973 between Israel and her Arab neighbors
class struggle
the Opium Wars of 1840-1842 and 1860-1861
to contend on strong grounds / to argue strongly for what is right
(Persian) Gulf War
to fight desperately
war of 1920 between Northern Warlords, in which the Zhili faction beat the Anhui faction and took over the Beijing government
National Protection War or Campaign to Defend the Republic (1915), a rebellion against the installation of Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯 as emperor
to argue / to dispute
Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988)
Anti-Rightist Movement, Mao's purge of "rightists" after the Hundred Flowers Campaign ended in 1957
the war of 1904-1905 between Russia and Japan
the Crimean War (1853-1856)
argument / debate / controversy
first Manchu invasion of Korea (1627)
lit. two tigers fighting (idiom) / fig. fierce contest between evenly matched adversaries
war of 1915 against Yuan Shikai and for the Republic
confrontation of 1929 between Chiang Kaishek and the Guangxi warlord faction
to dispute / to struggle for mastery
(idiom) to stand aloof from worldly affairs
direct competitor / direct competition
to dispute
lit. the ant fights, the snail contends (idiom); fig. petty squabbling
righteous struggle
Vietnam War (1955-1975)
term in TCM describing the progress of disease as an opposition between vital energy 正氣|正气 and pathogeny 邪氣|邪气
constant bickering and fighting (idiom); constantly at each other's throats / struggle for personal gain
to settle a dispute
war of independence
National protection war or Campaign to defend the republic (1915), a rebellion against the installation of Yuan Shikai as emperor
the Six-Day War of June 1967 between Israel and its Arab neighbors


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